This is What We Call an 'Uh Oh'

"LOGAN WENT WHERE?" Ororo shouted.

"He and Jinx merely wanted some…alone time," Xavier winced at her tone. "They'll only be gone for a day."

"And what about you and Hank?" She glared at him.

"Ororo you know the two of us are taking some of the children to a field trip to New York to the museum," Xavier said. "We discussed this weeks ago. You didn't want to go this time, remember?"

"I also didn't want to be stuck here alone with the children all day!" Ororo snapped.

"You won't be alone," Hank told her. "Shipwreck is staying with you today."

"Like I said…" Ororo gave him a deadly look. "I don't want to be here alone with the kids all day!"

"You're not going to be with all of them," Xavier told her. "We're taking Jamie, the Triplets, Fred…"

"The Blob?" Hank interrupted. "We're taking the Blob on a field trip to a modern art museum?"

"He wanted to come," Xavier shrugged. "It would expand his horizons. As well as Pietro and Wanda."

"Those two as well?" Hank winced. "No wonder Logan took off!"

"Roberto, Ray, Amara, Peter, Lance and Kitty are going as well," Xavier sighed.

"Oh lord those two groups of lunatics in the same place!" Hank gasped. "What are you trying to do Charles? Get us all banned from every cultural establishment in the state?"

"They will be on their best behavior," Xavier said. "Cover Girl and Low Light are going to chaperone as well."

"What about the parrot?" Ororo asked.

"He's staying at home with a hangover," Xavier told her. "Spirit and the Blind Master are looking after the babies as well. I also sent Lockheed over there for the day. I caught him tearing up one of my good pairs of shoes this morning."

"So the only ones I have to worry about are Scott, Jean, Kurt, Amanda, Althea, Todd, Xi, Sam, Tabitha, Bobby, Rogue, Forge, and Remy?" Ororo asked. "Well maybe this won't be so bad. The only one I really have to worry about is Shipwreck."

"Ha ha," Hank looked at her. "See you got the easy group!"

"I would not call Tabitha, Bobby, Todd, Xi or Remy easy by any stretch of the imagination," Ororo told him. "But the others aren't so bad. I know Forge won't give us any trouble today. He's working on some kind of project. He'll be working all day and so he'll be nice and quiet."

Ororo did not realize the irony of her words until much later.

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"So what the heck is this do hickey again?" Todd scratched his head.

"It's my latest invention," Forge told him. "It's a cell regeneration laser. It's supposed to speed up the healing process. Kind of like Logan's healing factor only much more technical."

"It looks like a ray gun to me," Xi remarked. It was a large device that hung from the wall that did look like something out of Buck Rodgers.

"It's a bit simplistic but…" Forge began.

"SHIPWRECK COME BACK HERE!" Ororo's voice rang out.

Shipwreck ran in with Ororo hot on his heels. "Aw come on babe! I swear I don't know how your bra got in my pocket! It must have happened when I was doing the laundry!"

"Yeah right!" Ororo shouted as she caught up with him and started to throttle him.

"Hey watch it you two!" Todd yelled.

"Come on guys this is…" Forge accidentally knocked over a switch. "Whoops."

"Whoops?" Both Shipwreck and Ororo asked right before the laser hit them. "YEOW!"

"It's gonna blow!" Todd yelled as the ray sparked and fizzled. It exploded with a loud crack.

"What is going on here?" Scott ran in with Bobby. "Is everyone okay?"

"If your definition of 'okay' means slightly fried yeah," Todd snapped sarcastically.

"What the hey…?" Shipwreck gasped in a high voice. "Forge what the heck did you do to us?"

"Are you okay?" Forge asked as he made his way through the smoke.

Standing there were Ororo and Shipwreck but they had regressed to fifteen-year-olds. Shipwreck of course didn't have a beard but had a huge tuft of black wavy hair. Ororo's hair was longer as well and their clothes fit loosely on them. "Uh…Where are we?" The teenage Ororo looked around.

"Don't you know?" Bobby asked.

"Things are kind of blurry right now," Shipwreck rubbed his head. "I think I know all you people but…Who are you again?"

"Oops," Forge gulped.

"Oops is right!" Althea snapped.

Storm and Shipwreck…teenagers? Oh boy. Tune in next time for the fun.